277: A bizarre scene unfolded: the enemy's attack missed its mark!

"Self-devouring?!"

When Lu Chen's nonchalant yet vicious threat landed, the white vortex coiled at the center of the black hole visibly paused for a moment. Immediately afterward, a mental fluctuation, even more violent and hysterical than before, erupted like a bursting dam!

[Arrogant! Ignorant! You lowly carbon-based lifeform, do you think that by stealing a fraction of the 'Fire Seed,' you can converse with me in this dimension?!]

[Causality? I am Causality! I am the rules!]

[Disappear!]

Accompanied by that deafening mental roar, the gravitational field at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy went completely berserk.

It was no longer that probing golden giant hand; this time, the out-of-control "genesis engine" was playing for real.

The white vortex spun wildly in reverse, forcibly extracting endless dark energy from within the event horizon of the black hole. These energies gathered and compressed in the void, ultimately transforming into hundreds of millions of thin, thread-like rays capable of slicing through atoms—

"Dimensional Disintegration Rays!"

Su Qingying's face turned deathly pale as she watched the dense, torrential red alerts flooding the radar screen. As a scientist, she knew all too well the horror of this attack. This was not a problem that could be solved by evasion; it was an omnidirectional, saturation attack covering all dimensions!

"Lu Chen! Defend, quickly! This is a saturation attack! Whether we are in the third or fourth dimension, we cannot escape it!"

"Defense?"

Lu Chen remained steadily seated in the captain's chair, even having the leisure to cross his legs. He watched the overwhelming rain of death on the holographic screen, capable of vaporizing the entire fleet in an instant, and the smile on his lips grew even wider.

"Qingying, remember this."

"In this universe, the best defense is not shields or armor."

"It is making the opponent miss."

He slowly raised his right hand. The fragment of the "causality interference device" in his palm had completely liquefied, looking like a mass of purple mercury, slowly flowing along his fingertips and finally merging into the void.

"Modify setting."

Lu Chen's voice was soft, yet it felt like the only truth under this starry sky.

"Event: Enemy attack."

"Result determination: Miss."

"Probability lock: 100%!"

Hum—! An extremely obscure and bizarre fluctuation instantly enveloped the entire battlefield. It was not an energy shield, but more like an invisible "lubricant," coating every corner of this spacetime.

The next second, a scene occurred that made everyone doubt their own eyes.

It was the most absurd and incredible scene, worthy of being recorded in the annals of cosmic war history!

The hundreds of millions of "Dimensional Disintegration Rays" struck toward the coordinates of the "expedition" at light speed with earth-shattering momentum. Theoretically, no matter how the fleet maneuvered, even if it performed a space jump, it would be instantly shredded by this dense net of firepower.

But! Just one microsecond before those lethal beams were about to touch the hull armor! They turned.

There were no external physical forces, nor any gravitational field deflections. The beams acted as if they had eyes, or as if they suddenly developed an extreme "aversion" to this spaceship, and at the very moment of contact, they uniformly slid away in all four directions—up, down, left, and right!

"Swish, swish, swish, swish—" Countless beams grazed past the "expedition." The closest one even brushed against the porthole. The terrifying high-energy reaction caused a ripple in the shield outside the window, yet it failed to harm the ship in the slightest!

This scene was like a clumsy outline master taking a machine gun and firing ten thousand rounds at a target, only to end up outlining a perfect human silhouette on the target without hitting a single hair!

"Th-this... how is this possible?!" Su Qingying widened her eyes, watching the gorgeous yet ridiculous fireworks show outside the window in disbelief. This completely violated the conservation of momentum, optical principles, and even basic geometry! Why would light, which travels in a straight line, turn on its own?!

"Nothing is impossible." Lu Chen calmly flicked his fingers, as if he had just finished a magic performance. "Because I have already modified the 'result.'"

"In the logic of Causality, 'did not hit' is a fixed fact. Since the result is already destined, the process must give way to this result. Even light has to obediently take a detour for me!"

[No! This does not conform to logic! This violates the underlying algorithm!] The ancient voice sounded again, only this time its tone was filled with terror and confusion.

It could not understand! It had calculated billions of times, deduced countless possibilities, and every time the result was the annihilation of the opponent. But why? Why did reality give it such a resounding slap in the face?!

[Again! I don't believe it! Die! Die!] The white vortex had gone completely mad.

It no longer cared about energy consumption, nor the stability of the black hole. It began to frantically pour out firepower; gravitational waves, antimatter streams, and even unstable space debris were hurled at the "expedition" as if they were worthless! That offensive was as if it wanted to flatten this entire region of the universe!

However, no matter how hard it tried, no matter what weapons it used, the ending was already doomed.

The "expedition" was like a ghost ship sailing through a storm; no matter how high the waves rose, it remained immovable. Those gravitational waves capable of destroying stars suddenly dissipated before hitting the ship; those terrifying antimatter streams annihilated inexplicably halfway; even more absurdly, the space debris collided with itself, turning into harmless dust!

"Missed." "Missed again." "Oh, that was close, but unfortunately still a miss." Lu Chen sat in his chair, watching the screen while mercilessly mocking it like a commentator.

"Old monster, shouldn't you practice your marksmanship? With this level of skill, you still want to be one of the cleaners? You'd be too shaky to even be an outline master!"

"Pfft—" This time, even the Super Soldiers who had been keeping their nerves on edge couldn't help but laugh out loud. It was so satisfying! It was fucking awesome! Watching that arrogant "deity" bumping around like a headless fly, unable to even touch their clothes—this feeling was even more gratifying than killing it!

[Ahhhhhh!!! I will kill you! I will kill you!!!] The "genesis engine" was completely broken. Its massive consciousness began to fluctuate violently, and the surrounding black hole event horizon became extremely unstable.

[Since I can't hit you, I will destroy this place! Let's all die together!!!] Accompanied by a hysterical roar, the white vortex suddenly stopped attacking. Immediately afterward, it began to collapse inward, and an energy so terrifying that even the heavenly craft issued an alarm was being frantically compressed at its core!

Self-detonation! It wanted to detonate itself, detonate the black hole, and drag the entire center of the Milky Way Galaxy down with it!

"Want to self-detonate?" Lu Chen's eyes suddenly turned cold, and the smile on his face vanished instantly. Play is play, but don't joke around with the universe. "You have to have the ability to do so."

He stood up abruptly and gripped the void with his right hand again! "heavenly craft!"

[Present, Master!]

"Causality reversal! Set new result—" Lu Chen's voice sounded like a great bell, shaking the starry sky! "All of its energy output must flow backward! Hold it in for me!"

Boom—!!! As Lu Chen's command fell, the white vortex that was frantically compressing and about to explode suddenly went stiff!

Immediately afterward, a scene even more bizarre and contrary to common sense appeared. The terrifying energy that was originally gushing outward and preparing to detonate was forced back in, just like a movie played in reverse! It was like a balloon that had already been inflated being forced to have its air stuffed back in!

[No!!! My energy! My core! Why? Why is it flowing backward?! This is not scientific! This is not logical!!!] The screams echoed through the sky.

The pain caused by that energy backflow was ten thousand times more terrifying than an explosion! It was like being strangled by someone; not only could it not spit it out, but it had to swallow the poison it had spat out, mouthful by mouthful!

"Science?" Lu Chen watched the white vortex, which was convulsing violently due to the energy backlash and whose light was rapidly dimming, and coolly adjusted his cuffs.

"In front of me, I am science. Now, have you had enough?"

He stepped out, his figure passing directly through the bridge's shield, and floated in the cold space. Under the radiance of the golden "Fire Seed," he was like a true deity, walking step by step toward the dying "genesis engine."

"If you've had enough, it's time to get down to business." Lu Chen reached out and pressed his hand onto the trembling vortex. "Scalpel is in position. Prepare... for craniotomy!"